Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough has accused Pete Hegseth of “making up s--t” as he goes along to defend a second airstrike that killed survivors on a supposed Venezuelan drug boat.

The MS Now host was discussing the ongoing fury surrounding the embattled defense secretary, while referencing a New York Times report that the military may have considered the two survivors’ radioing for help after their boat was hit in the initial strike a “hostile act” worthy of a so-called “double tap.”

“They’re scrambling around and trying to protect themselves. There’s no protecting themselves from the truth,” Scarborough said Thursday morning.

“And then there’s the ‘oh, well, they had a radio, and they were radioing.’ Does that mean the new sort of rules of warfare are: if you have a prisoner and they

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